i bought these on ebay. my bob mcfadden copy is not in 60 dollar shape. but it's okay. playable and all that. this was my last big splurge on ebay for a while. i made a lot of money selling stuff this month, so i indulged myself. this lot spoke to me. there were 500 records all together. i paid 550 dollars total. i'm happy. i had to throw away about 50 records because of condition, but luckily nothing that i really cared about. condition was kind of all over the place, but i would say about 75% were in decent VG/VG+ shape. And a lot were immaculate or even sealed. the stuff i don't want i'll end up giving to the thift store or the record store. it's the cycle of life. the rest i'll keep. some i might sell.

having said that about arthur lyman, a lot of the 50's stereo stuff i got sounds sooooooo good and is in excellent shape. which is the only way i will listen to that stuff. that marty gold living stereo up there sounds insane. like many hepcats of a certain age, i bought a ton of exotica type stuff in the 80's, but i got rid of most of it (i had a short-lived store in philly and i sold lots of that stuff at the beginning of the gen x retro boom in the early 90's). so i haven't actually listened to an esquivel record in years and years. they still sound amazing! the 50's was the zenith of sound if you ask me. not that anyone asked me.

the bull record? it has one killer guitar jam. some of the other songs are kinda cheesy. the bull dude himself plays guitar on the album. i'll have to dig it out, because it has his name on there. he plays like prince! or prince as hendrix. at least on that one track. and that one track definitely makes the album worth owning.

OMG Ten Commandments! I haven't heard that song since high school! Arti Sangrah looks like a winner too. This is Bull — is it so? Same goes for The More You Drink, The Better I Sound. And I've spent a few minutes trying to figure out what the title of that black & white one with the two guys heads on it says.

that cymande album is nice to have. in great shape too. sadly, the trashmen album was kinda trashed. i've always wanted a nice copy of that. but there was so much other good stuff that i didn't stay sad for long.

hey scott no need to pull out the bull record. i showed the cover to pops and have confirmed that that was barry brown's faux jimi vanity album. dad remembers the photoshoot lol. if you ever wana hear bull with the singer/bass player from teh hook look for banana brothers on uni!